O conhecer pessoal polanyiano como fundamento de uma ideia mais ampla da Ciência

Abstract

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) is presented by the History of Science and Philosophy as one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, being considered an epistemological innovator and a political conservative. In our thesis we aim to analyze and answer some questions related to Polanyi's model of thought. We will try to understand what would be the possible philosophical lineages, if any, of the author and their possible approximations with different thinkers in different areas of knowledge. From these multiple approaches, we aim to extract the defense of our thesis: in Polanyi it is not possible to separate political, epistemological, economic, theological, aesthetic, sociological and scientific thinking. Thinking, for Polanyi, would be the amalgamation of the multiplicity of knowledge models, their foundations, methodologies and the structural plurality of reality that, in levels, emerges throughout this creative process. Polanyi's epistemology has a “fiduciary program” of personal knowledge that is dependent on a personal commitment in the act of knowing, and this commitment will form the structure of tacit knowledge. In our understanding, much of Polanyi's philosophy would be better understood from this tacit action of Polanyian thought, which would also place Polanyi as a thinker of his time and involved in its fundamental themes. Finally, we find and work on Polanyi's notion of the origin of tacit knowledge, identified from clues both in field theory and in Brownian motion, and also his considerations on ultrabiology.